Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury

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The setting of the novel, Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury is set in a large unknown city. The author set the mood of this novel as dark and scary. Many people are being manipulated by the parlors or their televisors so much that they don’t realize what is actually happening in society. Montag is one of the few people who believe books are useful. Other people are just too scared or brainwashed to own books. The main character is Montag. Montag is a 30 year old fireman. He is a determined character that wants to save books. He is the protagonist of this story. The next character is Granger. Granger is an ex-professor. Granger and other ex-professors have spent the past 20 years perfecting the use of photographic memory. Grangers purpose in this story is to help Montag remember the books he has seen before. The third character is Faber. Faber is an ex-professor. He used to each english. Faber has wanted to keep books in society since he was a professor. Faber has been to much of a coward to try and save books.Montag encouraged Faber to help him save books. …show more content…

When Montag meets Clarisse he starts to realize what the society is doing. After Montag’s talk with clarisse he walks home and finds Mildred passed out on the bed because she overdosed on sleeping pills. When Montag finds Mildred he calls people to come do a blood transfer on her. “This machine pumped out all the blood from the body and replaced it with fresh blood and serum”(12). The second main event in this novel is when Montag starts to read. Montag tries to get Mildred to read but she calls the fireman a few days after Montag starts to read. Montag has to go burn his own house. While they were burning the books montag killed Beatty.Later on in the book Montag follows the river to the railroad tracks. When he found the railroad tracks he met a guy named

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